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If like me you read about a online backup service Mozy releasing a Mac client and thinking about trying it. Read this post over at The Apple Blog first. For the time being Mac users may want to wait for an update.

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Reuters
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs indicated on Wednesday he is unlikely to give in to calls from the music industry to add a subscription-based model to Apple’s wildly popular iTunes online music store.
“Never say never, but customers don’t seem to be interested in it,” Jobs told Reuters in an interview after Apple reported blow-out [...]

BBC NEWS
Apple sold more than 10.5 million iPods in the first three months of 2007, helping the US technology firm to record an 88% increase in profits.
Profits rose to $770m (£384m) from $410m for the same period last year.
I can’t believe the strength of iPod sales. Some fad …… huh!

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MSNBC.com

Yahoo Inc. is expanding its online music section to include the lyrics of 400,000 songs, hoping to strike a chord with Web surfers looking for a more reliable alternative to Internet sites that publish the words without the permission of the copyright owners.
Now if they publish the API for it, then developers could develop programs/plugins [...]

Over at AppleInsider they quote a report put out by PacificCrest’s Andy Hargreaves that Apple may be making more money on the iTunes Stores than they let on.

Tags:Apple, Digital Music, iTunes

TimesOnline
Amazon.com, the internet retailer, wants to launch an online music store next month to challenge Apple and is working on plans to sell music with reduced protection against copyright infringement.
The internet giant has approached all the music majors in the past fortnight and said that it wanted to sell unprotected MP3 songs in May as [...]

iStat pro is a very cool system monitoring dashboard widget. Well worth a look and it’s free (they do take donations).

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Please!

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New York Times
Listeners will be able to hear songs a certain number of times — probably five in the case of most major label acts.
If listeners like what they hear, they will be able to purchase those songs, much as they can on iTunes.
I guess you could go a good year without spending a [...]

Over Forbes.com they interview David Pakman of eMusic. A few things I found interesting. They split revenues with music companies they “take all the revenue the company generates from every plan and cut it in half. Half of it gets paid out to all the labels each quarter pro rata based on the number of [...]

My favorite DVD to Mpeg-4 tool HandBrake is out with a new version. Besides bug fixes the other changes in the new version are”
• User presets (Mac)
• AppleTV and PS3 support
• Anamorphic, even in QuickTime
• Surround sound (both AAC 5.1 and Dolby Pro Logic II)
• Chapter markers (QuickTime-style)
• Official support for the Windows GUI
• PPC [...]

If you want to make a quick web page iWeb is fantastic. Now if you have a lot of pages of photos it quickly becomes a mess. Of course there are ways around it, but frankly the purpose of this app is to publish your website easily and quickly. In a future version the [...]

Circuit City and Napster are teaming up to offer an online music service. Subscriptions are $14.95 and individual tracks will go for $.99. The new service will have some exclusive tracks not available to Napster users. Nothing to get excited about, it just more of the same from the non-iTunes world.

Tags:iTunes, Napster, Circuit City

Infinite Loop
That information is confirmed once again by a close source to Ars Technica this morning, and he has some not-so-great news about that pesky iPhone delay rumor. He Who Shall Not Be Namedâ„¢ has told us, “Apple knew two months ago that Leopard was going to be delayed since all of the key engineers [...]

I mentioned the Sansa Connect the other day and over Engadget today they have roundup of the reviews on it. What I get from the write up is that the Sansa Connect looks promising, but perhaps waiting for version 2.0 might be the way to go.

Tags:MP3, Music, Sansa Connect

CNET News.com
The retail sales chart for recorded music in the U.S. has the profile of a ski slope. The industry group, Recording Industry Associaton of America (RIAA) reports overall retail sales of recorded music declined 6.2 percent in 2006. Nearly 13 percent fewer CDs were shipped. The RIAA says it represents nearly [...]

The New York Times has an review (they like it) of a vacuum tubed beauty the Cocoon MC4 iPod dock. It comes from Roth Audio out of England and they are not cheap. It’s $649 for the Cocoon MC4, but it’s a small price to pay to be the coolest cat in the neighborhood.

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From my Tumblelog:
I’ve been using either iCal or Google Calendar for awhile now. I was in my Yahoo account and decided to check out the calendar to see how it was now – I haven’t check it out for a very long time. They haven’t changed a thing to that POS. It been awful for [...]

Billboard:
Joining two-dozen other participants, members of the Alarm, the Stray Cats, English Beat and the Cult made their way up the 1,576 steps of the Empire State Building in New York this morning (April 16).
Upon reaching the top, Mike Peters (the Alarm) Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats), Billy Duffy (the Cult) and Dave Wakeling (English [...]

Yahoo! News
Internet radio broadcasters were dealt a setback Monday when a panel of copyright judges threw out requests to reconsider a ruling that hiked the royalties they must pay to record companies and artists.
A broad group of public and private broadcasters, including radio stations, small startup companies, National Public Radio and major online sites like [...]